Lady&#39;s garment construction



Sept. 12, 1939. P. WENETT LADYS GARMENT CONSTRUCTION Filed Oct. 1, 1937INVENTOR P/uZZ BY \N\ vC B .Wnefi Patented Sept. 12, 1939 UNITED STATESLADYS GARMENT CONSTRUCTION Philip Wenett, New York, N. Y.

Application October 1,

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a. feminine clothing construction andit particularly relates to a combined outer and inner garmentparticularly designed for afternoon or evening wear.

a In tailored garments for sport, street, after- This dii'liculty isparticularly apparent in one piece dresses where the suspension isprimarily from the shoulders of the wearer and where the dress has beentailored to fit the womans body as in evening gowns.

It is among the objects'of the present invention therefore to provide animproved garment 530 for feminine wear, and particularly an improvedtailored garment for street, sport, afternoon or evening Wear which willbe devoid of the diff!- culties above mentioned, which will eliminatesubstantial relative movement between the undergarment and the outerapparel, which will avoid deformation of the tailored line of the outergarment and at the same time assure greater comfort to the wearer.

Another object of the present invention is to to provide an improvedgarment construction for women, which may be inexpensively manufactured,which will be sanitary, which is particularly adapted for evening wear,which is readily fitted upon the wearer and which may be put on :15 andtaken off by the wearer without difiiculty and without any manipulationsother than customarily at present employed with other types of garments.

Other objects will be obvious or will appear '40 during the course ofthe folowing specification.

In accomplishing the objects of the above invention, it has been founddesirable to design the outer gown and the inner gown in such a mannerthat there will be a common placket or opening in the side or back ofthe combined garment, the inner garment and the outer garment being sewntogether along the edges of the placket and the same fasteners beingemployed to close the placket in both the inner garment and the outergarment. Depending upon the height of the inner garment and the positionof the placket in respect to the waistline of the outer garment, theplacket may extend for its lower half or for a major fraction of itslength 55 into the upper portion of the inner garment.

1937, Serial No. 166,782

In evening dress constructions, which represent a preferred adaptationof the present invention, to which however the invention is by no meansrestricted, the placket is preferably at one side or in the middle ofthe black and the lower half of such placket should extend into theinner garment, which conveniently may take the form of a pair of pantieswith adetachable understrap, removable for washing or cleaning.

In evening gowns where the connection of the upper portion or bodice tothe skirt portion is often above the waistline, it is found particularlydesirable to extend the undergarment up to said line of connection andto sew the upper edge of the undergarment to the lower edge of thebodice and the upper edge of the skirt of the outer garment along asingle seam or by a single or double row of stitching. This seam orstitching may be positioned above the waistline at a position below thebust of the wearer.

This line of attachment may extend upwardly a to a peak at an elevatedposition centrally on the bust of the wearer and then slope downwardlytoward the sides of the wearer and across the back of the wearer whereit may approach the waistline. In this construction the height of theundergarment will be maximum in the front of the wearer and will be at aminimum at the rear of the wearer with an intermediate height at thesides of the wearer.

An important feature of the present invention resides in the fact thatthe inner garment is tailored to conform closely to the conformation ofthe outer garment above the waist of the wearer and is tailored belowthe waist of the wearer so as to conform more closely to the body thanthe outer garment.

In the drawing, which illustrates one of the forms of the presentinvention, to which however the invention is by no means restricted,since many different embodiments and garments could be utilized allwithin the scope of the present invention:

Fig, l is a front view of an evening gown, to which the invention of thepresent application has been applied, illustrating such gown positionedupon the wearer with a portion of the gown broken away to show theundergarment construction.

Fig. 2 is a back view of the wearer with the gown in position thereonwith a portion of the outer garment broken away to show the undergarmentconstruction.

Fig. 3 is a side sectional view upon the line 3--3 of Fig. 1 of theupper portion of the wearer with the outer and inner garments invertical section.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary inside out view of the garment construction withthe skirt pulled out at top, removed from the wearer.

Fig. 5 is a cross section upon the line 5-5 of Fig. 1 of the garmentremoved from the wearer.

Referring to the construction of Figs. 1 to 5, the outer garment A isprovided with an upper portion or bodice B and a skirt portion C and theinner bifurcated garment D.

As indicated best in Figs. 1 and 2, the outer garment A is attached byline of stitching IE to the bust portion or bodice portion B of thegarment and the upper portion of the dress or gown 13-0 is tailored, asindicated at H and 12 to fit the wearer W,

The gown, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is suspended by the straps l3 fromthe shoulder I4 and,

has short puff sleeves l5, but it is obvious many different dressconstructions and designs may be utilized in connection with theapplication of the present invention.

It will be noticed that the line of attachment l G as shown moves up toa peak I 6 at the front of the wearer and then descends along the linei! to a low point I B at the rear of the wearer, as best shown in Fig.2.

The bodice portion B in back, shown in Fig. 2, is supported by thecrossing straps i3.

As shown in Figs 2 and 3, the placket H! extends vertically along themiddle of the back of the wearer, and although it reaches the highestpoint 20 of the rear of the garment, it may conveniently be made ofshorter length and may also be placed along the side of the garment, ifdesired.

The undergarment construction D is provided with a bifurcated portion 2|forming the panties which may consist of a fabric cut on the bias and ofthe same color, but preferably of lesser weight than the outer garmentBC. This inner garment may have central and side seams 22 and aremovable strap 23 held in position by the line of detachable fasteners24, The upper portion of the inner garment D is connected along thestitching line It] to the outer garment BC.

Above the waistline, indicated by the dot-anddash line 25, it is closelyconformed to the tailored portions II and [2 of the outer garment BC.The placket 19 extends below the line of attachment l0 and below thewaistline 25 of the wearer. Below said line of attachment II] the innergarment Dis attached to the placket I9, as indicated at 26 and 21 inFig. 4. Opening of the placket [9 will also result in opening of theinner garment D, as indicated best in Fig. 4. Theupper edge of the innergarment D reaches a pe'alr'at the point 16 in Fig. 1 and graduallydescends to the point [8 on the back of Fig. 2.

By the construction as shown in Figs. 1 to 5, there is obtained acombined panty and outer garment, in which the panty will closelyconform to the wearer, will assure a maximum of comfort and will notdeform or change the lines of the dress, even though the wearer thereofmay indulge in dancing or other activity. The sanitary character of thegarment is assured by removability of the strap 23 and the tailoring ofthe inner garment above the waist together with the application of theplacket to both the inner and outer garment assures most satisfactoryfitting of the garment.

It is obvious that many changes may be made in the constuction of theouter garment and that the essential features of the present inventionmay be broadly applied to all types of tailored evening gowns regardlessof the specific character.

It is important that the strap 23 be made removable, as indicated uponFigs. 3 and 5, as this permits more ready cleansing of the garmentconstruction, Although the panties D may be made of the same material orof lighter weight material and of the same color as the external garmentBC, they also may be of other materials. In addition the panties may becut on the bias or in other manners and may be made of differentconstructions than is specifically shown in Figs. 1 to 4..

As stated above,,although the present invention has a preferredapplication to evening gowns and tailored or trimmed dresses, it mayalso be utilized for store, sport and afternoon dresses.

Many other changes could be effected in the particular features ofgarment disclosed, and in specific details thereof, withoutsubstantially departing from the invention intended to be defined in theclaim, the specific description herein merely serving to illustratecertain elements by which, in one embodiment, the spirit of theinvention may be eifectuated.

What is claimed is:

An evening gown comprising a dress having a skirt portion and abrassiere portion having lateral breast portions, said skirt portion andbrassiere portion being connected together, and said connection beingalong a line extending from a point between the breast portionsdownwardly and outwardly on each side to a position adjacent thewaistline in the back, a bifurcated undergarment having an upwardextension to above the waist line of the dress, said upward extensionbeing attached at its upward edge to the line of connection between thebrassiere portion and the skirt portion, said attachment beingcircumferential of the garment, said upward extension of theundergarment being cut to closely conform to the upper portion of theskirt portion above the waist of the wearer, and said bifurcatedundergarment being cut to more closely conform to the body of the wearerbelow the waist line of the wearer than said skirt portion and said gownbeing provided with a placket extending vertically across the Waist lineof the wearer, the edges of said undergarment and of said skirt portionbeing sewn together along the edges of said placket.

' PHILIP WENETT.

